Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-07-29
JOSIAH ALIENS WIFE.


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JOSIAH and me done first rate last.
year, and SO when he axed me to go
off with on some towers, two or three
on EN-, I consented with alackrity.
Towers are so elevatin' and upliftin' u
| He proposed that we should go on
our first tower to Washington. SAYS
he: "We are all run behind in payin,,
visits; less 60 first and see Miss Bean. !"
Miss Bean is his favorite third cous-
in on his own side. He thinks a sight
on her. But good land! so do ]. I
hain't a mite jealous; I like Miss Bean.
She may be little vain and gin to
likin' her relation over and above
well. But good land that is q good
fault. I like Miss Bean. And we
owed her lots of visits; she had made
her home with US before she married
Bean. *,,.-s
So we sat sail early one mornin'
and arrived at Miss Beanses, Wash
ington, D. c., just as sunset was a.
lowerin' down her purple mantllly and
hangin' it in graceful folds over the
settin' sun. The sun had gone out Of
sight, and the mantilly Ispeak on all
lay in dusky crumpled folds right
down on the horizon, but I have to
flower off facts g. little.
Miss Bean wuz glad to see US, and
| she and Josiah seemed almost over.
glad to meet again. But see at first
sight land mentioned it to Josiah
afterwards) that poor woman had
failed dretfully, and l pitied the poor
| thing, and seys 1: II am afraid that
Bean hain't what he should be-
And Josiah seid: "He never had
thought much of Beam" which may
! be true so far as I know.
Bean was off a. travellin' on the
road for groceries.
Well, the next mornin', KNOWN
that this tower was q short one, we
didn't lay out to stay more'n two or
three days, aud KNOWN from our ele-
waited positions great deal would be
expected of us'by GAINESVILLE and the
world in the line of knowledge, seys
to Josiah early the next mornin'-
| "Josiah Allen, it stands us in hand
to be up and doin'," and seys I. as
mldellin solemn events. what shall
we tackle first, Josiah"
| And he seys, ''The Capitol"
And consequently we tackled it.
Immegetly after breakfast, good
one Though the steak wuzn't so ten
der as I have seen, and the bread
wuzn't like the bread in certain
stone churn, in a certain buttery, and
So I mentioned to Josiah) still it was
1nidellln' good breakfast, and we sot
out in pretty good sperets and the
street car. We thought we would ride
round the city q little afor we tackled
the capitol.
! Miss Bean had to stay to home to
tend to things, and though Josiah
seemed to be despereted about her not
goin' with us, felt inclined to look
on it as dispersation and to be re-
signed to it.
was dressed we'll and felt we'll.
| had on a bran new parmethy dress
and a mantilly OF the same, with tabs,
q long new green veil, a umberel, as
good as new, and also had a new pair
Of woosted gloves, the same color as
my dress. correspondent all through,
and felt we'll, but not naughty.
And SO we wendell our way along
the broad, clean, beautiful streets;
why they wuz that clean you could
almost eat your breakfast offer'em
and broad, why broad is no name for
'em.
And I says to Josiah. "What do
you spose makes the streets so broad
and clean?"
And he says: "What LENDERS the
streets from bein' broad when the
government owns the hull country.
It would be a pity if it couldn't make
the streets broad enough to spread
itself out in" Seys he. ''The law of
American freedom is a. wide one; it
takes sights of room to roll round in,
and it impresses foreign natives dret-
fully to see the wedth of it's tracks.
And as for their bein' so clean," seys
he, ''there is lots of able-bodjed man
here who don't have thing to do
only to make g. law now and then, I
spose mebby they lay hold and help
sometimes"
II don't believeit," saysI. "They'd
think it were demeenin' 'em. Not
that it would be-" says I. 'For this
is clean work compared to some they
have to do. But, howsomever, they
wouldn't do it,
"Oh, we'll, says Josiah. II
shouldn't wonder if they would, jest
to pass away time, jest for exercise,
you know" 49,. :
But knew they didn't. And how
under the sun the city is kept 50 sweet
and clean is a mystery to me, unless
the folks along the road gets up and
washes 'em of with q cloth durin' the
night. !. 5s 5n +
And Idon't believe they DO that, be-
cause that would wear on 'em-and
everybody looked 60 good-humored
and happy, and sort of refreshed and
gay, that gin up that idea. And so
I had to put it away in the closet
where keep mysteries. THAT closet
lis Jest packed full and has got to be
enlarged :s. s.7s@ 1.
And all along the broad, clean,
beautiful streets, every now and then,
and sometimes offtener, are little
three cornered parks, they 'em call
reservations, full of green trees and
flowers, and fountains and statuets.
All over Washington, at almost every
street corner, you'll find 'em, and
even big parks full OF all sorts Of
beautiful trees aud flowers. Glossy
leaved magnolias. one mass of brilliant
rose color. and then trees bending
down with pink aud snowy bloom, a
bendin' down as il to compare their.
beauty with the frequent beds Of flow.
ers of all colors underneath 'em. And
birds q dartin' and . singin' over 'em
both, as if they were dizzy with de-.
light and couldn' settle the matter.
And white statutes q lookin' serene
" down or up into the blue heavens,
as the case might be. but either way
q seemin' lost ia q vision of raped
beauty nd 1flaa MI, sical 1nnrm1l. nf